SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY CREATING A SPECIFIC ATMOSPHERE BY CONTROLLING CONTRIBUTIONS OF SENSORIAL PERCEPTIBLE STIMULUS MEANS

• US 20100168878A1
• Filed: 05/21/2008
• Published: 07/01/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 05/24/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Signify Holding B.V. (Signify N.V.)
• Original Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: VAN DE SLUIS, Bartel Marinus, DIEDERIKS, Elmo Marcus Attila, CORTENRAAD, Hubertus Maria Rene, HOONHOUT, Henriette Christine Marie
• Granted Patent: US 8,892,261 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/90
• CPC Class Codes: A61L 2209/12 Lighting means
• CPC Class Codes: A61L 9/12 Apparatus, e.g. holders, therefor
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2021/0016 by the smell sense
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2021/0027 by the hearing sense
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2021/0044 by the sight sense
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2021/005 images, e.g. video
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 21/00 Other devices or methods to cause a change in the state of consciousness; Devices for producing or ending sleep by mechanical, optical, or acoustical means, e.g. for hypnosis
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3584 using modem, internet or bluetooth
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/6054 Magnetic identification systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2816 Controlling appliance services of a home automation network by calling their functionalities arrangements in telecontrol or telemetry systems for selectively calling a substation from a main station; in which substation desired apparatus is selected for applying a control signal thereto or for obtaining measured values therefrom H04Q9/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2827 Reporting to a device within the home network; wherein the reception of the information reported automatically triggers the execution of a home appliance functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2012/285 Generic home appliances, e.g. refrigerators
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 45/20 Controlling the colour of the light
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/175 by remote control
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/19 via wireless transmission

Abstract

The invention relates to the automatic creation of a specific atmosphere by controlling contributions of sensorial perceptible stimulus means loudspeaker controllable scent generator such as lights, sounds, and scents. The invention provides atmosphere settings containing data adapted for controlling the sensorial perceptible stimulus means in order to create at least one specific atmosphere, and atmosphere creation means adapted for automatically controlling the contributions of the sensorial perceptible stimulus means depending on the data contained in the atmosphere settings. Thus, a specific atmosphere may be created automatically without requiring a tedious adjusting of individual contributions of sensorial perceptible stimulus means to the specific atmosphere.

Claims

1. A system (10) for automatically creating a specific atmosphere by controlling contributions of sensorial perceptible stimulus means, comprising at least one of lighting means, sound creation means, or scent generator means, the system comprising

atmosphere settings containing data adapted for controlling the sensorial perceptible stimulus means in order to create at least one specific atmosphere, and

atmosphere creation means adapted for automatically controlling the contributions of the sensorial perceptible stimulus means depending on the data contained in the atmosphere settings.

5. The system according to claim 1, wherein atmosphere creation means (18) are adapted to control the usage of specific atmosphere settings depending on a digital rights management system.

6. The system according to claim 1, further comprising a reader (28) adapted for reading the atmosphere settings or input data from a data carrier (30) containing atmosphere settings or input data, respectively, and to transmit the read atmosphere settings or input data, respectively, to the atmosphere creation means (18).

7. The system according to claim 6, wherein the data carrier is a radio frequency identification tag (30).

9. The system according to claim 1, wherein the atmosphere creation means and the sensorial perceptible stimulus means are connected by a network.

10. Atmosphere creation means (18) adapted for use in a system (10) according to claim 1, comprising

receiving means (34) adapted for receiving atmosphere settings,

processing means (36) programmed to process the data contained in the atmosphere settings and to generate control signals for controlling the sensorial perceptible stimulus means depending on the processed data, and

transmitting means (38) adapted for transmitting the control signals to the sensorial perceptible stimulus means connected with the atmosphere creation means.

11. The atmosphere creation means according to claim 10, implemented by a computer configured to execute a program implementing the processing means and comprising interface means for a network for transmitting the control signals to the sensorial perceptible stimulus means, the computer being connected to the Internet and configured to receive a plurality of atmosphere settings over the Internet.

13. The atmosphere creation means according to claim 11, wherein the computer further comprises a reader interface for connecting with a reader for reading the atmosphere settings or input data from a data carrier containing atmosphere settings or input data.

2. The system according to clam 1, further comprising mapping means (20) adapted to automatically map input data to specific atmosphere settings and to transmit the specific atmosphere settings to the atmosphere creation means (18).

3. The system according to claim 2, wherein the mapping means (20) are implemented by a server (22) adapted to receive the input data, to load the specific atmosphere settings corresponding to the input data from a database (24), and to transmit the specific atmosphere settings to the atmosphere creation means (18).

4. The system according to claim 3, wherein the server is an internet server (22) providing the mapping of the input data to the specific atmosphere data as an internet service (26).

8. (canceled)

12. (canceled)

14. A method for automatically creating a specific atmosphere by controlling contributions of sensorial perceptible stimulus means wherein

atmosphere settings contain data adapted for controlling the sensorial perceptible stimulus means in order to create at least one specific atmosphere, and

atmosphere creation means automatically control the contributions of the sensorial perceptible stimulus means depending on the data contained in the atmosphere settings.

15. The method according to claim 14, comprising the following steps:

reading input data from a data carrier (S1),

transmitting the read input data to a provider of atmosphere settings (S2),

mapping the received input data to specific atmosphere settings (S3),

transmitting the specific atmosphere settings to the atmosphere creation means (S4),

processing the received atmosphere settings in the atmosphere creation means and generating control signals for the sensorial perceptible stimulus means (S5), and

transmitting the control signals to the sensorial perceptible stimulus means (S6).

16-18. -18. (canceled)